The Narmada Control Authority gave its clearance
for raising the height of Sardar Sarovar Project in Gujarat from the
present 95 metres to 100 metres enlarging the area and habitations under
submergence this monsoon season

If ordinary Israelis and their friends in other
countries were to spend even a few hours in Gaza, or talking to people
on the West Bank, then it is difficult to imagine them supporting the
policies of the present Israeli government

Anti war activists, intellectuals and educators
must move one step forward, to escape preaching and problem-digenesis,
into offering solutions, mechanisms, guidelines, and to-do lists, so
that the passionate millions know what to do with their passion, to
effect change and to foster a more promising vision for the future

With an electrified fence cordoning off all "autonomous"
areas, the "independent" Palestine that the roadmap is supposed
to lead to by 2005 couldn't possibly be anything other than a glorified
concentration camp

America and Britain declared themselves yesterday
to be the "occupying powers" in Iraq and produced a blueprint
for the administration of the country that confined the United Nations
to a co-ordinating role

The Bush administration circulated a draft resolution
among key Security Council members today calling for the elimination
sanctions and granting the United States broad control over the country's
oil industry and revenue